Naked Zombie Girl

So let's make a zombie movie with a naked girl and a chainsaw. Zombies show up in the middle of nowhere. There just happens to be a shed with a chainsaw in it. The girl just happens to lose her dress. It works. It's a zombie flick. I can dig it. It has all the elements.

Then let's make sure we film it in the dark with bad lighting, use some kind of weird warping effect incessantly and some kind of color shifting, blurry, seen through cloudy zombie eye effect too so no one can actually see anything. And when we're not using those effects over and over and over and over again, or an extreme closeup of a zombie, or the obligatory camera shake that's still in vogue, throw in a jump cut.

The makeup effects are really good including the blood splattered titular girl. Better in fact than Jean Rollin's Zombie Lake. The editing completely ruins it. All the effects go to 11 all the time. It's near impossible to watch. It's almost like you're watching a 5th generation VHS bootleg of a Eurotrash zombie flick.

With a title like Naked Zombie Girl, you get exactly that, Naked Zombie Girl only she's not a zombie. She is the heroine in this piece and much like Buffy Sommers from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the main character slays zombies while naked. It's a strangely nice twist as so far as to say that the naked stuff becomes a non issue when she is slaying the zombies. In fact, she too seems to accept the inevitable when she drops her towel in the last scene to fight the zombies. Even the truck driver seems to accept her abilities by fighting naked. I don't know if they will make this into a feature but that premise of her having to fight naked is her super power. Sure, she wears clothes normally but when it comes time to fight the zombies, it's time to get naked. And kudos to the makeup artist who did the zombies. It was some nice work, really nice work. The acting could have been better with the people in the car but that's 3 points off for that. This can easily be a cult classic just on the film short alone. And if true, the $17,000 budget was well spent.

Naked Zombie Girl I admit I was intrigued by the title, and felt my viewing time was not wasted. This short has all the tropes that might be expected, opening with travel along a lonely highway with an infected companion, directly to engine trouble and the mob of undead with an appetite for the flesh of the living sliming up the windshield. Now welcome to the splatterfest. We are confronted with an unsettling montage as the score sets the tone. With the exception of the overdone strobe effects, this is big-production values in a small package. Our feisty heroine comes off as more capable than expected, surviving many tight situations. Many an homage to the classics, is the ending The End? Titles are reminiscent of 1960's B horror movies. Oh, and Zombie Girl is naked.

Really enjoyed this. It's a hardcore homage to grindhouse movies and a lot of fun. Also, kudos to Meghan Chadeayne for really committing to the role. Not many actresses would do that. She did a terrific job. Now I'm hoping for a sequel. Bring on Naked Zombie Girl 2: Full Frontal Attack!

You know what you're getting into here. It's gory, it's campy, it's balls to the wall and it's perfect. It's very pulpy and very graphic. I definitely recommend it based on the care the filmmakers obviously took and the love for the genre that they obviously have. Take a peek! You'll be glad you did.